Azure Backup for Archived Email

Hello Team,
Can we use Azure back up for archival of email back up. MS Exchange Server 2007 or older, approximately 150 TB of data and 5 years of archived emails for approximately 75K Users.
There is no need to access these file on daily use , but should have a capability to restore the data on need basis for some legal / litigation analysis
Regards
Vinu

Absolutlly.
You can use Azure backup to store any type of data. First upload od data would probably take forever, but it can be done.
As you are speaking of Exchange backup, you can probably make it DR too.
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regards

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20070528154728 - Creating directory [/var/opt/SUNWics5/csdb/archive/archive_20070528] 20070528154728 - ... success
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20070528154729 - Archivebackup on [/var/opt/SUNWics5/csdb/archive] mounted on [/dev/dsk/c0d0s6]
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